Plato Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Sam Harris
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra
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We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Yoko Ono
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
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I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."
Gerolamo Cardano
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
Adrian Rogers
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
Plato